Another approach would be to adapt one's body to move through and live in such an area. This was the approach of our ancient hunter-gatherer ancestors. They built tools, clothes, shelter that was more or less in or of the natural world.
There are side effects to living in a heavily modified environment. The mind and body adapt to the changed external reality. I personally experience one basic, simple example. For many years of my life, any time I walked somewhere, it was only on a sidewalk, or around an open yard, or in a building. When we moved to our current property, I walked in woods, up and down ravines, over rocks across streams, through deep snow, etc...
I noticed my range of motion and balance had been compromised by years of easy walking. The stabilizer muscles and nervous system connections for balancing winnowed away. Also the ability to take even a modest impact from jumping down a couple of feet was gone. It would "hurt" to just hop off a log or boulder.
The relationship between the mind and body and the modified environment is recursive and ongoing. If the overall concept here is the loss of adversity ends up degrading capability, then the "ruling class" is most degraded. The type of behavior on display in the "Epstein Files" makes a lot of sense, as do inventions like cults and secret societies. They essentially built yet another even more modified and controlled environment within the overall civilization system.
This enclosure is basically maintained by well paid servants and handlers. It's basically the equivalent of a handicapped zone and self-made zoo where people who have become defective freaks can live a depraved life. A great example of that is provided by that duPont heir dude who was convicted of raping a toddler, but served no jail time.
People whose wealth protects them from every consequence are sort of slugs after a generation or two where anything that says "no" is like salt to their exposed flesh.
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